Since 1959 the Government of Cuba has allocated considerable resources to its national educational system. The literacy campaign of 1961, the appropriation of private schools, intervention at universities and the creation of new, specialized institutions were, according to the official propaganda, measures to transform the island into a "world power in education." At the same time, the aim was to create a system of indoctrination that would shape the people's thinking, right from early childhood, into Marxist-Leninist-Castroist ideology.